Boiler-wagon for tar



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' O. P. WASHBURN.

BOILER WAGON FOR TAR, 8m."

No. 440,209. A Patented Nov. 11, 1890.

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OSQA-R F. W'ASHBURN, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOILER-WAGON FOR TAR, c.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,209, dated November 11, 1890.

Application filed March 26, 1890. Serial No. 345,329. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

' Be it known that I, OSCAR F. WAsHBURN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Boiler-Vagons for Tar, Paint, &c., of which the following is a specification.

Under this invention a wagon is equipped with a receptacle for tar, tar-paint, and the like, which receptacle also serves as a boiler or heater, and the vehicle is also provided with a fire-box orcombustion-chamber suitably arranged relative to said receptacle-heater, all so that the liquid tar or paint'inay be most readily moved from place to place and quickly heated, either while in transit or immediately after arrival at the place of use.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 being a sectional elevation of the boiler-wagon; and Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same, a part thereof being broken away and in vertical section to more clearly illustrate certain features of construction.

The wagon-body A has the bottom a thereof at its rear end at its middle cut out, the bottom extending only part way to the rear end of the body proper.

B represents the receptacle and heater for the tar or other paint supported 011 the body and extending from a point just back of the seat at the front end to or substantially to the rear end of the body and over said cut-out portion of the bottom. The heater-receptacle is provided at its top with an opening d, through which the tar-paint is to be entered thereinto, said opening being provided with the cover e, and said receptacle, as shown in Fig. 2, is preferably narrower than the body A, whereby longitudinal spaces f f are left at each side of the heater, which are open to the rear end of the boiler-wagon.

0 represents the fire-box, shown as secured to and depending from the rear end of the heater-receptacle. The top of said fire-box is formed by the rear bottom portion of the heater-receptacle, and, as indicated in the drawings, there is a space, as at on, between the top edges at the front and sides of the fire-box and the bottom a of the wagon-body. A depending fender g is preferably provided around and separated from the front and sides of the fire-box. The fire-box as preferably constructed is entirely closed except as to the opening 2, having the closing-door h therefor at the rear end and the flue-opening j at its one side, which opening is continued in the smoke-pipe 7c, extending vertically along and smoke-pipe being provided with a damper Z.

A quite broad step or platform m is suspended through suitable hangers or brackets n, from the rear end of the boiler-Wagon, the

The receptacle-heater is provided at its rear end with a cockp, so arranged that the heated tar-paint may be drawn from the receptacle B into a bucket, which may be supported on the platform m.

The air-spaces x between the top of the firebox and the bottom a prevent the latter from becoming burned or heated, and the fenders 9 protect the running-gear from being burned, and also serve to concentrate or prevent dissipation of the heat radiating from the firebox for its impingement upon the rear por tion of the receptacle-bottom.

The spaces f f alongside of the heater and between it and the sides of the body are for the reception of ladders and staging-planks.

It is usually intended to burn wood in the firebox, and as the same is constructed to be entirely closed at will the combustion when desired may be immediately stopped and the burning wood quickly coaled.

The practical advantages of the present boiler-wagon are several, among which may be noted that the tar-paint may be easily entered into the receptacle, and when heated in the ready manner indicated withdrawn therefrom for use. The heater-receptacle and means for heating the paint therein are one with and a part of the wagon, and the wagon need not become smeared with the paint. Heretofore it has been customary for the painters to have independent kettles, the loading and unloading of which on and from the ordinary express-wagons necessitated labor and the soiling of the vehicle. These disadvantages are obviated by the employment of the present invention, and the yard or place at which the painting is to be done need not be upon the outer side of the receptacle, said level of said platform being just below the- TOC littered or rendered untidy by the dripping of tar or paint and the scattering of charred wood and ashes, as necessary where fires are built on the ground under the kettles, as heretofore.

What I claim as my invention is v 1. A wagon having thereon a receptacle for tar or paint and a fire-box thereunder, substantially as described, said receptacle being narrower than the body of the wagon, where by the spaces f f are formed between the sides of the wagon-body and of said receptacle, which spaces are open and unobstructed at the top of the wagon, for the purpose set forth.

2. A wagon having the bottom of its body formed with an opening at its rear portion and a receptacle for tar or 'paint supported on said bottom and having the fire-box under the rear portion thereof, the front and side Walls of said fire-box being located at a short dis- 2o tance within the borders of said opening, as

at 00, for the purpose set forth;

3. A wagon having thereon a receptacle for tar or paint and a fire-box thereunder and provided between and separated from the run- 2 5 ning-gear and the front and sides of the firebox with the fender g, substantially as and for the purpose described.

OSCAR F. VVASHBURN.

Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLows, J. D. GARFIELD. 

